Senate Bill 1327 has to be one of the strangest pieces of legislation to ever be passed by the California Legislature and signed into law. The...
The good news about California’s economy is that it is still recovering from the very severe recession that hit the state in 2020 as Gov....
California’s dominant Democratic Party is joined at the hip with the state’s unions so it’s not surprising that legislators frequently enact measures aimed at helping...
It’s amazing, in a way, that as California’s politics drifted leftward over the past several decades, the iconic symbol of its once-conservative mien, Proposition 13,...
In 2019, just weeks after being inaugurated as California’s governor, Gavin Newsom issued what many took as a death knell for the state’s troubled bullet...
Gov. Gavin Newsom spent three days in Washington last week expanding his profile as a national political figure while insisting he has no interest in...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected virtually every aspect of our lives, mostly in the negative, and one effect is disconnecting California’s public officials from...
When UC-Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies conducted one of its periodic polls of California voters early this year, it discovered that just 36% of them...
As California’s post-World War II industrial economy slumped during the 1970s, civic and business leaders in the state’s two major metropolitan areas made some momentous bets on...
Democrats hold virtually all of the positions of political power in California. They have the governorship, both U.S. Senate seats and every other statewide office....